Placeholder text

Go to cart

Catherine Empress of All The Russias

By Vincent Cronin

Catherine Empress of All The Russias Politics & Society

Catherine Empress of All The Russias

0 - Default Title
Description
Catherine II Empress of all the Russias was the archetypal Enlightenment monarch. She reigned for more than 30 years and during that time as politician diplomat commander-in-chief educator builder picture-collector lover mother playwright writer of fairy stories autobiographer and indefatigable correspondent she reformed and developed her largely unenlightened and backward country. Yet this woman who at the age of 33 after 17 years of unhappy marriage placed her deposed and murdered husband's crown on her own head had begun life as an insignificant German princess. Catherine is interesting today not only as one of the most effective sovereigns of the late eighteenth century but also as a determined career woman and head of government who dominated a vast empire as easily as she did her lovers and her court.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
370
Release Date:
2011-04-19
Publication Date:
2011-04-19
Publisher:
Harvill Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1846555574
ISBN13:
9781846555572
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
514 g
Height:
138 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out